Chelsea had a really good morning today. She was so perky when we went for our morning walk. It was good to see that little tail up over her back. The rest of the day was pretty subdued but she started off OK.

I did some errands this morning. Picked up some stuff that I get from Walmart and Fleet and then Dick's prescriptions from Walgreens. Then I was able to be home until 4PM when I went to Mass. Guess what. I should not have to leave the neighborhood until Monday morning now. Isn't that great?

I made a batch of diabetic Oatmeal cookies this afternoon and took a nice long nap. Roxie liked that a lot.

Mass was good. It always prepares me for the week coming up. I visited with my friends Lucy and Helen before heading home. There was a bake sale so I bought a plate of chocolate chip cookies and I also bought "Shares" in our teenagers who are going to go to help in troubles and less fortunate areas. I like to help with that.

We had bratwurst for our supper. Tastee mighty good too.

So. now It is bed time and I think I will take our Cheslea out one more time and head there.

Have a blessed Sunday and pray for my friend Doc and his wife Judy who cares for him.

God love you, I do.

Mary

If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?

It was 20 degrees colder today than yesterday. Still in the mid 60s though. The wind picked up pretty good this afternoon too.

Dick and I got him all cleaned and changed early today so the rest of the day was pretty free. I made a blueberry pie this morning. I also got everything ready for next weekend at the conference except for the fires that I am sure will have to be put out before then so I can now concentrate on making sure that everything is ready for Dick to be here alone. He won't be alone all the time, of course. Bobbie is taking Chelsea for the weekend and will come out each day to fix lunch and spend time with him.

Chelsea was a pitifully quiet little girl most of the day and her little tail was dragging. I have to keep hiding her pills in different things. At first liverwurst worked, then summer sausage. Then Jim and Michelle picked up these pill pocket treats called Greenies and they worked for a while. Then I coated all those things with peanut butter until she stopped eating that too. Now is am putting them in ice cream. She DOES like her sweets.

I picked up Nancy a little after five to go out and shoot league. We stayed a bit longer to visit with everybody so I was not home until 7PM. We both are shooting a bit better. Nancy still had one that was not so good but two were fine. I think I might have a 65. Yippee!!

I received a call tonight from Judy Blake, Doc's wife. Doc is a friend from Rhine. A dear friend. He is at St. Nicholas Hospital with a obstructed small intestine caused by pancreas trouble. Please pray for him as he is a sick boy. I will put him on the prayer chains in the morning.

Del Mc Clintock has been a sick man too. He came to the club to visit for the first time in months after his surgery. Was good to see him. He uses one of those amplifiers to talk now as he has a permanent tracheotomy. He is looking good and in good spirits.

So I have added some calls on to tomorrow's list of things to do. Yes, I do lists of things to do every day and cross things off as I get to them. If something is not done, I move it to the next day. If it stays on too long, I erase it because it could not have been important anyway.

Have a nice weekend.

God love you

Mary

Today we had temperatures in the mid 80s. And it is only mid April. The wind was also blowing most of the day and we are supposed to have possible thunder storms this evening and towards morning. I would like a little rain. The heat and wind have really dried out the gardens.

Chelsea did get me up in the middle of the night but it was almost 3AM so not as bad as some days.

I made a batch of sausage/vegetable dump soup. I had the broth from the venison and Guinness from the Wild Game Dinner for the base. So now I have restocked out homemade soups again.

Kate and I had lunch at the Mill Street Grill in downtown Plymouth. It is the remodeled Family Restaurant. This is my second time there, the first being St. Patrick's Day and I was very pleased. Now I have to get Dick there. I am thinking of perhaps breakfast some day. Now that it is nicer, I want to get him out of the house a bit more.

Kate and I enjoyed our lunch and our visit. We discussed genealogy and the CWI gathering. We are rooming together for that. I believe I have everything ready now. I just have to email Maureen with my additions to the Ireland trip proposal.

Tomorrow will be quiet. I have decided not to go to lunch at Dairy Queen. I need some time and I will be going shooting in the evening with Nancy. We decided to stay and visit with the "guys" for a while tomorrow. We have been in such a hurry the past few times.

I found out this morning, that all the stories that I input about my family on the PAF Personal Ancestry file DID come over from to Ancestry. I just had to figure out how to locate them. This is saving me SO much re-inputting of information. I have over 600 people in the file now. I have a lot to learn but it is coming.

Have a good Friday.

Love

Mary

Somehow today was very busy. Chelsea only woke me up once during the night. She is a very subdued puppy today. Some days her age wears heavy on her. And then wears heavy on my heart. But she ate and does not seem to be uncomfortable.

I did our grocery shopping this morning. Then I prepared our dinner, chicken breasts stuffed with a spinach stuffing and then wrapped in bacon and baked in the oven. I also made a batch of minestrone soup and some zucchini muffins.

After lunch, I went over to Advanced Eye Care and picked out some new glass frames. They were having a big half price sale, so I just looked and tried on and picked one without worrying about price. They are different than any I have ever had. I can hardly wait to get them.

The rest of the day was spent cleaning the kitchen, catching up on some desk clutter and working on the agenda for the CWI gathering the weekend after next.

Roxie joined me in bed again last night. Again, she doesn't stay long but it is nice to have her there for a while.

Til tomorrow

God love you

Mary


My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money.
-Joe Weinstein

Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
-Anne Tyler

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
-Robert A. Heinlein

It was cloudy when we woke up but the sun came out later in the day. Unfortunately, the wind was blowing too and kept things pretty chilly out there. Chelsea slept until 5AM again. Then I got another hour or so. One would think that I would get rested.

I did some dishes, wash and helped Dick get changed and bathed before we had to go to Aurora Plymouth to the Anti coagulation Clinic for Dick's blood test. He has been too high for the last few times and this week he was low. It had dropped from over 3 to 1.7. So we are readjusting again and will go back in three weeks to retest.

Then we stopped at Walgreens for a prescription. I also found some nice battery operated lanterns for $10. each. We bought a couple to have in case of a power failure. Something we have been meaning to do for some time.

On the way home, we picked up Chinese food for out lunch. We got one Chicken Chow Mein dinner and an extra egg roll to split. It is way too much food. We have enough for another meal. At least it is good.

Then I took a nap and woke up just in time to get to Just Jane's for my haircut. That was a nice break in the day. We had ham and bean soup for our supper. I watched Dancing with the Stars. Sorry to see Aiden go. Well, we will see as the weeks go by. I am narrowing in a bit on who I like but not enough to be sure.

Roxie came in bed to sleep with me for a little while last night. I like that. She hunkers down between my knees. I am kind of glad she doesn't stay as eventually, I like to turn on my side for a while and she would be very offended.

Have a good Wednesday. I am going to pick out new frames for glasses. I need new ones and Advanced Eye Care is having a half price sale on frames. Yippee.


God love you

Mary

The day turned out to be a bit busier than I thought. Chelsea broke her long night's sleeps by getting me up at midnight and then again at 5AM. She then asked me to go out every half hour until I left for Bible Study. She is exhausting me.

Anyway, I went to bible study at 9:30AM. Our snowbirds are back and we had an almost full crew, eight. We are studying Mark and this was the triumphant entry into Jerusalem on the donkey. We were interested in the fact that all he did when he got there was look around and then didn't say a word. Not like him. But later in the gospel he will make up for it.

Then I went over to Mother's. We called the doctor's office because she had not had a good day on Sunday. She was weak and had several dizzy spells, though she did not lose consciousness. When I told the nurse about the dizzy spells and that she had not seen Doctor Hancock since January 2nd, she said that he would definitely want to see her and they had an opening this afternoon at 1:45PM. So I took her.

I came home and fixed dinner for Dick and me and took care of Chelsea. (I got home at about 11:15 and Chelsea never woke up til after noon. That was weird. I was even cooking.) The appointment went well, I think. He did not find anything specific. He did an EKG and had a blood test taken. All is well, as a matter of fact the hemoglobin count is improved. Mother is complaining of a pain across her chest and down her arms. Not to sever and she thinks it is muscle or joint. But as this is the first time she has mentioned anything like that, Dr. Hancock has recommended that when she gets this pain, she take some nitroglycerin to see if it makes it go away. If it does, perhaps there is possibly some angina and he will investigate further. If not, then it is probably just muscle.

She felt good when we got home, even better than when I came in the morning, so I was encouraged.

Then home again and I puttered around trying to catch up on things around here. Now I am watching Dancing with the Stars, one of the few shows that I really like. As soon as it is over, I will go to bed.

Maureen and Bea and I are narrowing in on the itinerary for the Ireland trip. It will be such fun.

I worked a bit on Ancestry also.

Guess that is all for now. Take care of you.

God love you

Mary

* How can there be self-help groups?

I forgot to blog yesterday. I was so tired that all I could think of was waiting for 9PM so that I could go to bed. It was a rather quiet day. I worked on the CWI Gathering, the CWI Ireland trip and then at 4PM went to Mass.

The gospel reading was the story of Doubting Thomas. But Father Van Beeck took the first part of the Gospel, where Thomas wasn't there and pointed out that this is when the sacrament of Penance was given to the Apostles.

So now to today. I am not quite as tired and have tried to be still and rest. I again did a lot of computer work, mainly on Ancestry.com and I went downstairs for a couple of hours to sew on my quilting projects. That is always relaxing, though for some reason or other Roxie found it annoying and kept meowing at me insistently. I think she wanted me to be upstairs. She was quite pleased when I finished. Especially since I carried her up the stairs.

Chelsea has been sleeping til 4 or 4:30AM every morning which is helping my sleep, but I still find that at 6:30AM when I absolutely have to get up I am still tired. I sometimes wonder how late I would sleep if I just had the chance.

Anyway, tomorrow starts another week and it is mildly busy each day. Tomorrow Bible Study of course.

I hope your week is blessed and fruitful.

I love you all

Mary